CHAPTER I.--EARLY LIFE AND PROGRESS AS A SEAMAN 3

SECT. 1. My Father's early Life 3

2. His First Year's Apprenticeship 12

3. His Progress as a Seaman, with Incidents of Sea-life 20

4. Capture by the Enemy, and Escape from a Spanish Prison 26

5. Rewards of Masterly Seamanship 31

6. Entrance on, and Progress in Training in, the Greenland Whale-fishery 36